Neonatal intensive care unit

my preceptors and the staff in the pediatrics and NICU units. - I achieved this objective by having a lot of opportunities in this clinical practicum to improve my nursing skills and learn how to handle challenging situations. I was able to shadow a mother and baby RN. I was able to take newborn vitals, feed newborns, change diapers, learn how to give newborn a bath, learn how to do newborn hearing screening, and learn how to properly care for a perineal tear. At the beginning, I was really…

and dedication, but the profession is more rewarding than one can imagine. As a nurse, patients depend on you to care for them, the families of these patients depend on you too. They rely on you to give them the best care and to make sure all their needs are met during fragile times in their lives. In today’s society nurses are being over worked and patients are getting the attentive care they require. Assigning one nurse to a dozen patients for one shift. Today’s nurses are putting in the time…

A critical care nurse is a licensed professional nurse that is responsible for critically and acutely ill patients receive the highest of care. They are sometimes called an ICU or Intensive Care Unit nurse. There is a wide variety of settings for a critical care nurses to work in. They may be needed for adult critical care units, pediatric or neonatal ICU’s, emergency departments or even more specialized units such as burn units. Care will go to acutely ill patients of all ages that may be…

A registered nurse works with all kinds of patients from someone with a serious disease to someone that has a cold. Their work environment includes hospitals, doctors offices, home health care or nursing care facilities. They provide and coordinate patient care, which means they give them care if needed and plan out what they need to do to recover from their illness. An RN also helps doctors during exams and surgeries. An RN is the person you will most likely see when you first go to the…

With today’s specialized obstetrical care and amazing medical advancements, premature babies have everyone in their corner rooting for them. Coping with a Premature Birth Emotions take us in many directions and after the birth of a preemie; you are on a heightened sense of urgency. There are…

Previously, I am a Staff Nurse at a 60-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Maternity and Children’s Hospital in Saudi Arabia. The management conveyed a solution to resolve the unit’s understaff problem through altering the roster from 8hours of duty to 12hours. At that time, NICU’s patient census has an average of 75 critical and non-critical neonates and preemies with only 10-12 staff per shift. For the period of this change process, the seven stages of transition by Adams, Hayes, & Hopson…

For my family project I have had the opportunity to spend some time with a family who has a child with a disability. Callie is a rising fifth grader in her rural elementary school, and enjoys attending each day. But what sets her apart from the rest of her classmates is the fact that she was born with down syndrome, and has an individualized education plan (IEP). In addition to down syndrome, Callie also suffers from epilepsy. I got to spend a good portion with this family and see first hand…

babies are taken when they are first born into the world. These babies would always come into the NICU with not much of a chance to live and I would hope to be the one to be able to save their lives. This job would also make me plenty of money to take care of my own family by being able to buy the necessities, such as, a house, food, water, clothing and etc. Now that you have learned why I chose nursing services for this project , you might be wondering what a nurse does? A nurse is in charge…

contributors to neonatal morbidity both on the short and long-term in late preterm infants (LPI). Ognean and colleagues elaborate on the factors that are associated with lower rates of breastfeeding at birth. Compared to infants that are not fully breastfed, the infants which are only breastfed had lower Apgar scores (which calculates and summarizes the health of newborn children), increased rates of anemia at birth, and a longer time period admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit. The…

neonatologist is and what they do. A neonatologist is a type of pediatrician that works with newborn babies especially the ones that are born prematurely or with serious illnesses. Neonatologists usually work in hospitals and in the NICUs (Neonatal Intensive Care Units). Neonatologists are trained to be able to handle complex situations and be able to resolve them. They do many things such as diagnose and treat newborns with conditions such as: breathing conditions, birth defects, and infections…